The document provides an overview of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). It discusses the IIIF image API, presentation API, search API, authentication API, and annotations. It demonstrates examples of manifests, sequences, and using IIIF with annotations. The document also discusses future APIs, additional resources for learning about IIIF, and encourages participation in the IIIF community.

1. IIIF
NISOTraining
Glen Robson, IIIFTechnical Coordinator
twitter: @glenrobson

2. About
• IIIFTechnical Coordinator
• Help with implementations
• Work with vendors
• A community resource
• Previously at the National Library of Wales
for 12 years
• Digitisation
• http://bit.ly/2zPFx8a
• Newspapers
• http://newspapers.library.wales
• Fedora Repository
• Crowdsourcing

3. Plan
• Why IIIF?
• IIIF APIs
• Image API
• Presentation API
• Search API
• Authentication API
• JSON-LD and Linked Data
• IIIF and Annotations
• Future APIs
• Discovery
• Further resources

4. Tools
• Follow along:
• https://github.com/glenrobson/iiif-demos/blob/master/NISO_links.md
• JSONView plugin:
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/jsonview/
• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jsonview/
chklaanhfefbnpoihckbnefhakgolnmc?hl=en
• Add alternate JSON content-type for firefox:
• application/ld+json. (Tools->Add ons->JsonView preferences)

5. International
Image
Interoperability
Framework

6. International

8. Interoperable -Viewers

9. Interoperable - Images

10. Interoperable - Collections
http://stanford.io/1PW789d

11. Interoperable
Example from Alexandra Bolintineau, University of Toronto Libraries

12. Framework
“get pixels” via a
simple, RESTful,
web service
Just enough metadata to
drive a remote viewing
experience
Image API Presentation API

13. IIIF Image Api
http://iiif.io/api/image/2.1/

14. Example
• https://tomcrane.github.io/the-long-iiif/image-api.html
John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I.
Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
Welcome Library:
http://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b14658197
From: http://resources.digirati.com/iiif/an-introduction-to-iiif/

15. info.jsonhttps://dlcs.io/iiif-img/3/2/04fbbb28-d5a7-4408-
b7da-800c4e65eda3/info.json
• width, height
• Tiles: width height
• Scalefactors 512x512,
1024x1024, 2048x2048
etc…
• Sizes: pre-generated full
images
• Profile: what the image
server supports

16. Zoom
http://tomcrane.github.io/presentations/tile-exploder.html

17. Zoom
https://tomcrane.github.io/the-long-iiif/dee-osd.html

18. Tiles
http://puzzle.mikeapps.me/

19. Viewers & Image Servers
• IIIF Image Servers
• Cantaloupe - Java
• IIP - C++
• Loris - Python
• RIIIIF - Ruby
• IIIF Image APIViewers
• OpenSeaDragon
• Leaflet
• IIPViewer
• IIIF Presentation APIViewers
• UniversalViewer
• Mirador
• Diva.js
Full list: https://github.com/IIIF/awesome-iiif

20. Questions?
scheme://host:port/prefix/identifier/region/size/rotation/quality.format
• http://dams.llgc.org.uk/iiif/2.0/image/1465309/full/512,/0/default.jpg
• Parameters: https://tomcrane.github.io/the-long-iiif/image-api.html
• Info.json: https://dlcs.io/iiif-img/3/2/04fbbb28-d5a7-4408-b7da-800c4e65eda3/info.json
• Tiles: http://tomcrane.github.io/presentations/tile-exploder.html
• Zoom: https://tomcrane.github.io/the-long-iiif/dee-osd.html

21. Presentation API
http://iiif.io/api/presentation/
● Basic Descriptive Metadata
● Rights information
● Links
● Sequences - viewing order, etc.
● Ranges -Table of Contents etc.
● Based on Shared Canvas Model

22. Manifest

23. Manifest
http://dams.llgc.org.uk/iiif/2.0/4642022/manifest.json
• Service - links to search service
• Metadata - descriptive
• Logo, license and attribution
• Sequences - images
• Structures - ranges

24. Metadata

25. Metadata - Multilingual

26. License, logo and attribution
License
Logo
Attribution

27. Structures

28. Sequence

29. Canvas is King
Canvas Width
Canvas
Height
Image Width
Image
Height
Examples so far:
Canvas Width = Image Width,
Canvas Height = Image Height

30. Image Choice
Choice
Canvas

31. Image Choice
http://resources.digirati.com/iiif/an-introduction-to-iiif/dee-sbs.html

32. Multi Images
Canvas

33. BNF: Reconstructed manifest (partial): Grandes
Chroniques de France (Châteauroux, BM, ms 5)
http://demos.biblissima-condorcet.fr/chateauroux/osd-demo/

34. Yale Center for British Art

35. Annotations
Canvas

36. Annotations

37. IIIF Audio +Visual
Canvas Width
Canvas Duration
0 10
Seconds

38. IIIF Audio +Visual
Canvas Width
Canvas Duration
0 10
Seconds
Full Duration

39. IIIF Audio +Visual
Canvas Width
Canvas
Height
Canvas Duration
0 10
Seconds
Full Duration
4s to 7s

40. Fire Example
https://tomcrane.github.io/fire/

41. Questions?
http://iiif.io/api/presentation/
(Collections on next slide)

42. Collections
• A collection of manifests or collections
Journal or NewspaperTitle
Newspaper or Journal Issues (Manifests)

43. Welsh Journals
https://journals.library.wales

44. Archives
Fonds: Cardiganshire Great War Tribunal
Series:
Official Handbooks Series:
Minutes
Series:
District Appeal Papers
Aberystwyth Cardigan Aberaeron

45. Archives in the UV

46. On the fly Collections
• Search results as collections:
• http://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/collection/map
• https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/Discover/Search/#/?
p=c+1,t+maps,rsrs+0,rsps+10,fa+,so+ox%3Asort%5Easc,scids+,pid
+,vi+
• Viewing in the UniversalViewer:
• http://universalviewer.io/uv.html?manifest=http://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
iiif/collection/map#?
c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-205%2C-48%2C1587%2C956

47. Viewing in the UniversalViewer
http://universalviewer.io/uv.html?manifest=http://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/collection/map#?
c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-205%2C-48%2C1587%2C956

48. IIIF Search API
http://iiif.io/api/search/1.0/
• Like PDF search within
• Searches Annotations not metadata
• Supports auto complete

49. Annotation
https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/

50. NCSU Nubian Message
https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/nubian-message-1995-04-01/manifest

51. Search Results
https://ocr.lib.ncsu.edu/search/nubian-message-1995-04-01?q=warrior

52. Auto Suggest
https://ocr.lib.ncsu.edu/suggest/nubian-message-1995-04-01?q=war

53. Search in UV
https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/nubian-message-1995-04-01/

54. Results in UV

55. Authentication API
http://iiif.io/api/auth/1.0/
• The authentication api doesn’t reinvent the wheel and doesn’t specify the
mechanism for authentication but gives an interaction pattern for clients to
undertake authentication to access protected resources. It supports four patterns:
• Login - user asked to login with a username or password
• Clickthrough - user asked to agree to terms and conditions
• Kiosk - the kiosk has permission to access the resource
• External - authentication happens outside of the apps control but is informed
if it was successful.
• All of these use case support giving degraded access for example lower quality to
public users.

56. Auth Login

57. Auth Click through

58. Questions
• IIIF Search API: http://iiif.io/api/search/1.0/
• Search within
• Annotations only
• IIIF Authentication API: http://iiif.io/api/auth/1.0/
• Interaction pattern for authorisation

59. JSON-LD
• JSON-LD is a format of JSON which is also Linked
Data
“In computing, linked data is a method of publishing structured data
so that it can be interlinked and become more useful through semantic
queries. It builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP, RDF
and URIs, but rather than using them to serve web pages for human
readers, it extends them to share information in a way that can be read
automatically by computers.This enables data from different sources to
be connected and queried.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data

61. Context.json
Info.json
RDF:
<https://dlcs.io/iiif-img/3/2/04fbbb28-d5a7-4408-b7da-800c4e65eda3> doap:implements <http://iiif.io/api/image>,
<https://dlcs.io/iiif-img/3/2/04fbbb28-d5a7-4408-b7da-800c4e65eda3> exif:width 7656,
<https://dlcs.io/iiif-img/3/2/04fbbb28-d5a7-4408-b7da-800c4e65eda3> exif:height 4867

62. JSON-LD Framing
• Once you have data in RDF how
do you get it back to JSON?
• Use a JSON-LD frame
http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/manifest_frame.json
More details:
http://iiif.io/api/annex/notes/jsonld/#frames

63. Questions?
https://json-ld.org/

64. IIIF and Annotations
• Annotations can be:
• OCR - Optical Character Recognition
• Transcriptions e.g. through Mirador
• Automated image analysis e.g. google vision
• A teaching tool
• Can be used for:
• Searching
• Machine learning analysis
• Statistical Analysis

65. IIIF and Annotations Example
• https://github.com/glenrobson/SimpleAnnotationServer
• Stores IIIF Annotations
• Supports the IIIF Search API
• Options to store annotations inTriple store

70. Annotation Body:
• Rank
• Name
• Place
• Unit
• Ship
• Medal
Analysis Method
• Load annotation lists in to BlazeGraph
• Convert bodies to Linked data
• Query data using SPARQL
• Resolve places with Google
• Manually resolve ships with Wikidata

72. Welsh Sailors Lost

74. Questions?

75. Future APIs
• Discovery
• How do you discover IIIF resources?
• How do you send content to an aggregator like
DPLA or Europeana?
• How do you keep it up to date?
• How do you take a manifest from one viewer to
another?

76. Plan to look at Activity Streams
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/

77. www.europeana.eu

78. musiclibs.net

79. Further Resources
• Join the community!
• Email: iiif-discuss@google.com
• Slack: http://bit.ly/iiif-slack
• Fortnightly telephone calls
• Join an interest group:
• Museums
• Manuscripts
• Newspapers
• Software Development
• Shape the next versions of the spec by joining a technical group:
• Discovery
• Audio/Visual
• Text Granularity - modelling annotations in words, line or paragraph.

80. Further learning Resources
• IIIF Guide: http://resources.digirati.com/iiif/an-introduction-
to-iiif/ fromTom Crane
• A two day workshop from Jason Ronallo: http://
ronallo.com/iiif-workshop/
• Hands on workshop from Jack Reed and Drew Widget:
https://iiif.github.io/training/intro-to-iiif/
• List of IIIF compatible software and projects:
• https://github.com/IIIF/awesome-iiif

81. Summary
• Lots of use cases for IIIF
• Demonstrated Image and Presentation API
• Discussed Search and Authentication API
• Demonstrated some possibilities with annotation.

82. Final Questions
• Twitter: @glenrobson
• Email: glen.robson@iiif.io